Abrogate. To revoke or annul one written law by another. Abstract of Title. A concise statement of the record evidence of one's title or interest in realty. Frequently spoken of as an "abstract."

Acceptance. A receiving-with approval, or conformably to the purpose of a tender or offer; receiving with intention to retain.

Acceptance Supra Protest. The acceptance of a bill, after it has been dishonored, for the honor of the drawer or an indorser. Acceptor. One who accepts a bill of exchange usually the drawee.

Accommodation Indorser. One who, not a regular party to a paper, adds his name to its

credit. Accommodation Paper. A loan

of the maker's credit (without restriction as to the manner of its use) by means of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, and by making, accepting, or indorsing the same, as the case may be.

Act of God. Such inevitable accident as cannot be prevented by human care, skill, or foresight, but results from natural causes, such as lightning or tempest, floods or inundation.

Action. Doing a thing, the exercise of power, physical or legal; the thing itself as done; an act, as, legislative, judicial, executive action.

Adjudication. Determination by judicial authority. Administrator. One appointed by a competent court to settle the affairs of a decedent's estate. Admiralty. A court exercising jurisdiction over controversies arising out of the navigation of public waters; also, the system of jurisprudence which pertains to such controversies. Adult.

A person twenty-one or more years of age; in the case of females, in some states, eighteen years of age.

Adverse Possession. A term applied to the holding of real estate adversely to another. Affidavit. A voluntary oath, before a judge or an officer authorized to administer oaths, to evince the truth of certain facts; as, the facts upon which a motion is grounded.

Agency. The relation between two persons as principal and agent.

Agent. A person employed by another to act for him. Opposed, principal.

Agister. One who takes the cattle of another into his own ground to be fed for a sideration to be paid by the

owner.

Alias.

con

Otherwise; also used in

the sense of "for."

Alien. A foreigner; one born in or belonging to another country, who has neither acquired citizenship nor is entitled to the privileges of a citizen. Alien Enemy. One who owes allegiance to a state at war with the state in which he then lives. Alienate. To transfer or convey

title, property or other right to another.

Alimony. An allowance which a husband former husband

or

may be forced to pay his wife or former wife.

Aliunde. From another place, as outside evidence-evidence aliunde.

Allonge. A paper attached to a bill or note for such indorsements as the original paper itself will not hold.

Alteration. A change or substitution of one thing for another; as, the alteration of a way. Ambiguity. Doubtfulness and uncertainty in regard to meaning. Annuity. A yearly sum stipulat

ed to be paid to another in fee or for life or years, and chargeable only on the person of the grantor.

Annulment. The act of making void.

Anomalous Indorsement. An irregular indorsement.

Ante. Before; hereinbefore. Antedated. Dating back or at an earlier time than the date of making.

Appraise. To set a price upon by authority of law.

Appurtenance. A right connected with the enjoyment or use of another thing as principal; also, the thing itself out of which the right grows as an incident.

Arbitration. The hearing and determining of a cause between parties in controversy by a person or persons chosen or agreed to by the parties.

Articles of Co-partnership. The written agreement by which a partnership is formed.

Assent. Agreement; approval; compliance; consent; willingness declared. Opposed, dis

sent.

Assets.

Property sufficient to answer a demand made by a creditor or a legatee upon an executor or administrator, or by a creditor upon an insolvent or a bankrupt. Assign.

To transfer or make over to another the right one has in any object.

Assignee. One to whom proper

ty is transferred; more particularly one to whom an insolvent or a bankrupt makes over his whole estate for the benefit of his creditors.

Assignment. A transfer of prop

erty to another for himself or creditors; also, the writing containing the evidence thereof. Assignor.

One who transfers property to another person. Attachment. The seizure of property by direction of court. Attestation. Signing as a witness. To witness an

ment.

instru

Bailee. bailed. Bailment. A delivery of goods in trust, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee.

One who receives a thing

Bailor. One who delivers a thing to another in bailment. Banknote. A promissory note, issued by a bank under authority of law, payable on demand to the bearer.

Bankruptcy. The status or con

dition of being a bankrupt; also, that branch of the law under which the assets of the estate of a bankrupt may be distributed among his creditors and the bankrupt discharged from the indebtedness.

Barter. A contract by which

goods are exchanged for goods. Beneficiary. One who is entitled to the benefit of a contract or of an estate held by another. Bequeath. To give personal property by will.

Bequest. A gift of personalty by will; the clause in the instrument making the gift; the thing itself so given.

Bilateral. Designates a contract executory on both sides; as, a sale, opposed to unilateral. Bill of Exchange. A written order directing a second party to pay to a third party a certain sum of money. Commonly known as a draft.